The Slovenian soft drinks group, Dana, posted a profit of SLT93m (US$440,000/€396,000) for the first six months of 2003, against a loss of SLT37m (US$175,000/€157,000) for the first half of 2002.

Sales revenues rose by 5.4% to SLT1.29 billion (US$6.1m/€5.5m). Volume sales of drinks fell by 1% to 11.3m litres, the company said.